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...ARTHUR RIMBAUD (491 pp.)-Enid Sfarkie-New Directions...
...legs was amputated, the other might have to go. "Have yourself chopped up, torn to bits, shredded," he wrote to his sister, "but don't let them amputate you ... To have to perform acrobatic stunts all day long for the mere semblance of existing!" Soon after, Arthur Rimbaud was dead; he had just turned...
Williams worked at that time in a kind of basement garret with Clark Mills, a fellow poet. Mills introduced him to a one-foot shelf of influences: Rimbaud, Rilke, Lorca, Chekhov, Melville, D. H. Lawrence and Hart Crane, who became Williams' poetic idol. Tom introduced Mills to Rose. As Mills recalls it, Mrs. Williams "commanded Tom to bring home 'gentleman callers,' " as Tom Wingfield does in Menagerie; "Williams' poor sister was dressed in old-fashioned Southern costumes. She was very lovely. She never talked at all. Mrs. Williams never stopped talking-empty verbiage about their status...
...sewer. To make different order out of it is intensely difficult for the week-stomached, it is impossible. Characters and scenes float in and out of the with a wonderfully picaresque irregularity of Rabelaisian humor are broken off unexpectedly by passages approaching the drunken, frenzied poetry of a Rimbaud. Obscurity and philosophy, squalor and rhapsody are juxtaposed, crammed together, torn apart and tossed wildly, as if the book were the mixing bowl in which Miller, the mad chef, were preparing a salad -- to fling in the face of the diners. But not even in obscenity or nihilistic frenzy...
...whole valley bubbled with sunbeams like a beer-glass is not bad Rimbaud, and in Portrait of My Father as a Young Man Lowell achieves a couplet...